Son of Ali Baba is a fantasy adventure film starring one iconic actor (Tony Curtis) one iconic actress (Piper Laurie) and directed by Kurt Neuman, the man responsible for The Fly and other whacky sci-fi B pictures. In Son of Ali Baba, Curtis plays, Kashma Baba, son of a thief from Baghdad, Ali Baba (Morris…
Western Classics I Blu-ray review
Kino Lorber once again taps in the Western genre and has assembled three films from the Universal pictures’ library in a box set. Called Western Classics 1, this set consists of a trio of Westerns from the 1940s with some legendary, big-name actors who are synonymous in the genre. The three films in this set…
Deanna Durbin Collection I
Deanna Durbin Collection 1 Deanna Durbin was a child actress who had a somewhat of a short-lived Hollywood career as a singer and actress. She was mainly known for starring in romantic musical comedy films with her heyday being in the late 1930s. A few years later Durbin, as she was getting older, wanted to…
Arabian Nights Blu-ray review
Arabian Nights is a 1942 fantasy adventure film featuring Sabu, Jon Hall and María Montez who would later star together again in Cobra Woman. Arabian Nights is the first of six similar films which paired Jon Hall and Maria Montez. This picture is noted for being the first film Universal used the three-strip Technicolor film…
CAROLE LOMBARD COLLECTION I BLU-RAY REVIEW
Carole Lombard is one of the great leading ladies during the Golden Age of cinema. A wonderful actress whose career began during the silent era, starring and appearing in many romantic comedies and melodramas for several years until her untimely death in 1942 at the young age of 33. Kino Lorber has released a Blu-ray…
Kiss the Blood Off My Hands Blu-ray review
Kiss the Blood Off My Hands is a Film Noir crime drama about a former solider Bill Saunders (Burt Lancaster, Criss Cross, Scorpio) who is living in England and finds himself in a web because of a murder. Saunders accidently kills a man at a bar with one punch, runs away from the authorities, and…
Quai Des Orfevres (Kino Lorber) Blu-ray review
Jenny (Suzy Delair) is a young hopeful singer who wants to make it big in the theatre. Her singing talents are limited but she isn’t let this get in her way. She flirts and seduces popular people around the industry. This makes her husband and accompanist Maurice (Bernard Blier) jealous. He discovers that Jenny is…
Paracelsus Blu-ray review
During the 1940s in Germany, while films were being still being produced, most of them were German propaganda anti-American films due to World War II. The 1943 film, Paracelsus while made during the war, has the distinction of not being a German propaganda film, which was rare at the time. The film was one of…
The Narrow Margin (1990) (Kino Lorber) Blu-ray review
While going on a blind date, Carol (Anne Archer), becomes a witness to a brutal mob hit. Thinking that she can avoid any trouble, she decides to hide out in her brother’s cabin in Canada. Carol doesn’t know that the man with the hitman was actually an infamous Mob Boss. A Los Angeles district attorney…
The Man Who Was Sherlock Holmes Blu-ray review
Im a big fan of Sherlock Holmes mysteries, whether it is Basil Rathbone, Jeremy Brett, Peter Cushing, Christopher Plummer, among other actors that have played the iconic character over the years. I have seen most of the Holmes films over the years. One I had not heard of until it was announced by Kino Lorber…